Category talk:Gas

Moving In-Game Categories to Category Pages
Currently most category pages are empty, or have a short, one sentence description. Alongside this, main namespace articles with the same name are included in the categories, which provide a richer list of the members of the category, and often a more detalied description.

In my subjective opinion, this is redundant, cuts one article in two. It also damages what a category page should be: "Gas" is not a member of in-game gases.

From a practical viewpoint, in a worst case scenario, this change leaves the UX identical, thanks to the redirect on Gas. Hopefully, however, this makes the wiki easier to maintain and keep up-to-date. The standard list at the bottom of the category page will stay fresh with updates automatically. It also helps wiki readers find and traverse the category tree, exploring content systematically. Instead of reading about gasses and having to click the gasses category to enter the tree, after already having read about them, that click is saved and further reading about aggregate states is offered directly instead.

Please offer your opinion about moving category descriptions to category pages, and redirecting to the category namespace!

KGello (talk) 17:09, 12 October 2020 (UTC) - Edited for clarification KGello (talk) 17:28, 29 March 2021 (UTC)